“I misspoke: I should have said, Polish,” Barry said.

On Wednesday, the D.C. Housing Authority successfully matched 80 homeless veterans and their families with permanent housing, boosting the number of veterans who receive free or subsidized housing vouchers in the District to 744.

D.C. Vote organized the rally outside the Arizona Republican’s office in the Rayburn Building in response to the hearing Franks held last week on his bill that would ban all abortions in the District after 20 weeks’ pregnancy. Local leaders view the bill as an intrusion on the city’s self-governance, while Frank, a strong abortion opponent, has pointed out that the Constitution grants Congress the authority to “exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever” in the District.

Marveling over what they billed as the potential future for getting around town, D.C. Council members Mary Cheh and Tommy Wells took a quick spin Thursday in Google’s new self-driving car.

Cheh (D-Ward 3), chairwoman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Works and Transportation, and Wells (D-Ward 6) rode about 10 blocks in the self-driving Toyota Prius following a briefing with Google officials at the company’s Washington office on New York Avenue NW.

Democrats and District officials amplified their complaints Thursday ahead of an afternoon congressional hearing on a bill that would ban all abortions in the District after 20 weeks.

The $1 million installation project began in August 2011 and replaced bulbs that must be replaced every six to 12 months with ones that are changed every 12 years to 15 years.